4 Granada Hills residents who died over the weekend in a suspected triple murder and suicide have been recognized by the L.A. County medical expert.
Authorities nonetheless haven’t launched a motive in what one officer referred to as a “horrific” incident.
Simply earlier than 7 p.m. Saturday, Los Angeles police responded to a name from a house on Lerdo Avenue, within the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains, the place they discovered the physique of an older man, his spouse and two of their grownup youngsters.
Police mentioned the household patriarch — recognized in medical expert data as 79-year-old Rodrigo De Leon — killed himself after killing Arabella De Leon, 80; Merceditas De Leon, 49; and Rodrigo De Leon, 53.
The medical expert listed the septuagenarian’s demise as a suicide brought on by a gunshot wound to the chest, and the opposite three deaths as homicides brought on by a number of gunshot wounds.
When officers first arrived on the sprawling house on Saturday, they pressured their method in and had been met by a lady who had survived the gunfire by barricading herself in a room and calling for assist. The girl — later recognized by CBS Information because the couple’s grownup daughter with particular wants — directed the officers to a different a part of the home, the place they discovered a number of our bodies, authorities mentioned.
Throughout a briefing for reporters Saturday evening, LAPD Capt. Kelly Muniz mentioned that “the one optimistic level is that you just at the least have one witness who has survived this incident.”
“I don’t know the way rather more terrifying and horrific of a scene it might be,” Muniz added.
Neighbors described the household as “quiet” and mentioned they’d not prompted issues, holding to themselves. Some mentioned they had been shocked to listen to of such violence within the prosperous neighborhood.
“This can be a good neighborhood,” mentioned Richard Asperger, 62. “To assume {that a} triple murder or a shootout can occur, that’s not what we moved right here for.”
It’s not clear when a funeral or vigil may happen, and on Tuesday night the remaining household didn’t provide remark to The Instances.
